Inspector-general of police Musa Hassan this morning filed a defamation suit against Anwar Ibrahim over the PKR de facto leader's police report against him for allegedly fabricating evidence in the 1998 'black eye' incident.
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim welcomed Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan's lawsuit against him as an opportunity to go head-on with the country's top cop in the legal arena.
Anwar has accused Musa and attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail of manipulating evidence in an investigation into an alleged beating he received while in police custody 10 years ago.
In 1998 Anwar was arrested and later jailed for sodomy and corruption, and sacked as deputy premier. The sex conviction was later overturned.
Last month, Anwar filed a police complaint over his treatment in custody a decade ago, which resulted in him sporting a black eye.
According to Musa's lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin, the country's top policeman said Anwar had slandered him by repeating in public and to the media the allegations of manipulating evidence.
"What Musa is claiming here is that Anwar, in lodging that report and publicising it with his statements in press conferences, he has repeated those allegations without substantiating it with hard evidence," his lawyer told AFP.
"He has acted with malice and made the statement recklessly as to whether what he said is true or not," Kamarul said.
Anwar has said he is the victim of a "vendetta" after spending a night in police custody last week over new sodomy accusations levelled by a young male aide. He said he was being targeted because of the allegations he made against Musa and Gani.
Anwar rejected the new allegations levelled by 23-year-old aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan as another conspiracy to stop him from toppling the government, which suffered huge losses in March elections.
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim welcomed Inspector-General of Police Musa Hassan's lawsuit against him as an opportunity to go head-on with the country's top cop in the legal arena.
Anwar has accused Musa and attorney-general Abdul Gani Patail of manipulating evidence in an investigation into an alleged beating he received while in police custody 10 years ago.
In 1998 Anwar was arrested and later jailed for sodomy and corruption, and sacked as deputy premier. The sex conviction was later overturned.
Last month, Anwar filed a police complaint over his treatment in custody a decade ago, which resulted in him sporting a black eye.
According to Musa's lawyer Kamarul Hisham Kamaruddin, the country's top policeman said Anwar had slandered him by repeating in public and to the media the allegations of manipulating evidence.
"What Musa is claiming here is that Anwar, in lodging that report and publicising it with his statements in press conferences, he has repeated those allegations without substantiating it with hard evidence," his lawyer told AFP.
"He has acted with malice and made the statement recklessly as to whether what he said is true or not," Kamarul said.
Anwar has said he is the victim of a "vendetta" after spending a night in police custody last week over new sodomy accusations levelled by a young male aide. He said he was being targeted because of the allegations he made against Musa and Gani.
Anwar rejected the new allegations levelled by 23-year-old aide Mohamad Saiful Bukhari Azlan as another conspiracy to stop him from toppling the government, which suffered huge losses in March elections.
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